South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier questions the need for a rule change that would regulate how quickly offenses could snap the football in games.

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George Schroeder
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South Carolina's Steve Spurrier has joined the chorus of college football coaches opposed to the rule proposal that would force offenses to wait 10 seconds to snap the football. And that chorus could lead to the proposal's early demise.

That's not certain yet. Neither is the extent of Nick Saban's influence on the NCAA Football Rules Committee when it approved the proposal last week. Rogers Redding, the NCAA's coordinator of officiating and ...